Common Stock Certificate of Vantage Energy Services, Inc.
This document certifies that the named holder owns fully paid and non-assessable shares of common stock in Vantage Energy Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation. The certificate allows for the transfer of shares upon proper endorsement and is subject to the company's Certificate of Incorporation and related board resolutions. The holder may receive funds from a trust account only if the company is liquidated without a business combination or if the holder votes against and seeks conversion upon a completed business combination. The certificate must be countersigned by the transfer agent and registered by the registrar to be valid.
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Exhibit 4.2
| NUMBER | SHARES | |||
VTG | ||||
VANTAGE ENERGY SERVICES, INC. | ||||
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF DELAWARE | ||||
COMMON STOCK | ||||
SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS | ||||
This Certifies that | CUSIP 92209F 10 2 | |||
is the owner of |
FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE SHARES, PAR VALUE $.001 PER SHARE, OF THE COMMON STOCK OF
VANTAGE ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
transferable on the books of the Corporation in person or by duly authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly endorsed. This certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. Witness the seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers.
| Dated: | Vantage Energy Services, Inc. CORPORATE SEAL 2006 | |||
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | SECRETARY | |||
| THE STATE OF DELAWARE |
Vantage Energy Services, Inc.
The Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof of the Corporation and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights. This certificate and the shares represented hereby are issued and shall be held subject to all the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation and all amendments thereto and resolutions of the Board of Directors providing for the issue of shares of Preferred Stock (copies of which may be obtained from the secretary of the Corporation), to all of which the holder of this certificate by acceptance hereof assents.
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
| TEN COM- | as tenants in common | UNIF GIFT MIN ACT | Custodian | |||
| TEN ENT - | as tenants by the entireties | |||||
| JT TEN - | as joint tenants with right of survivorship | (Cust) | (Minor) | |||
| and not as tenants in common | under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act | |||||
(State) | ||||||
Additional Abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
For value received, hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, OF ASSIGNEE)
shares
of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation will full power of substitution in the premises.
| Dated | ||||
Notice: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. |
Signature(s) Guaranteed:
THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15).
The holder of this certificate shall be entitled to receive funds from the trust account only in the event that the Corporation is liquidated because it does not consummate a business combination or the holder seeks to convert his, her or its respective shares into cash upon a business combination which he, she or it voted against and which is actually completed by the Corporation. In no other circumstances shall the holder have any right or interest of any kind in or to the trust account.
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